Deming Headlight (Deming, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
433 issues from 1890 to 1901, published in Deming, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Deming Headlight was published between June 25, 1881, and December 31, 1948, and then again from January 6, 1956 to the present. It appeared weekly except for a brief period when it was published daily between September 1883 and June 1886. The March 18, 1882, issue offered a subscription rate of $3.00 a year, “invariably in advance,” or six months for $1.75. The January 2, 1904, issue offered a subscription of $2.00 per year, in advance, $1.00 for six months, or six cents for a single issue. In its January 9, 1904, issue, the Headlight advertised itself as “about the only newspaper left in New Mexico today to which there is not some string tied.” Readers could expect to find international, national, territorial, state, and local news reporting within its pages.
Commencing publication with a small treadle-powered job press, the Deming Headlight soon secured a Washington hand press which dramatically improved the aesthetic appeal of the paper. When publisher J.E. Curren bragged about the improvements of the Headlight, noting that he started with the poorest town, press, and types in the nation, C.J. Hildreth, the editor of the Las Cruces Rio Grande Republican commented, “This reminds us of the fruit vendor who came to Chicago twenty years ago with all of his stock and trade in one basket and now he owns a handcart.”
Deming grew out of the development of railways; it was the terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Other newspapers soon arrived to compete with the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Deming, New Mexico, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress